CURRENT EXHIBITS [256]

Santa Monica, November 2012 - Christopher Grimes Gallery is very pleased announce Future Anterior, an exhibition of new work by Carlos Bunga. This will be Bunga’s first exhibition with the gallery. F uture Anterior will feature two distinct works. In the main gallery, Bunga will create a site- specific installation based on the idea of memory, the present and the future using the ordinary, unas...   [more]

Opening: January 19th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Movements of artistic production, an arm reaching up then swinging down, brush in hand, streaking a canvas with a deep red, a body lying floor bound then animated by the slow progression of music, a strange choreography ensues, clay stacked high in a precarious structure falls and is then reassembled only to fall again to the floor smacking the cement, a model is posed in situ, limbs curled, a photograp...   [more]

Opening: February 9th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Clay and Glass National Juried Exhibition January 26, 2013 – March 1, 2013 Opening Reception: Saturday January 26th, 2013 from 7 – 9 pm The City of Brea Art Gallery and the Association of Clay and Glass Artists of California pair up to present this dazzling display of blown, stained, and mixed media glass works, in addition to hand-built and wheel-thrown ceramics. This diverse exhibition featu...   [more]

Opening: January 26th   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

“ i was born in tulsa oklahoma in 1943. when I was sixteen I started to shoot amphetamine. i shot with my friends every day for three years. once the needle goes in it never comes out.” - L.C. The Stephen Cohen Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of black and white photographs by Larry Clark from his two groundbreaking series Tulsa and Teenage Lust. Clark’s distingui...   [more]

Opening: January 10th   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

 Renowned Mexican sculptor Jorge Marín returns to Couturier Gallery with his seventh solo show, Reflection & Balance. The exhibition features new bronze and stone sculptures as well as recent works showcasing his arsenal of figural subjects including garudas, equilibrists, and horses, with the elemental features that he is best known for, such as boats, masks, wings and spheres. The 10 bronze works...   [more]

Opening: January 12th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

LOS ANGELES, CA — The Craft and Folk Art Museum presents Social Fabric, an exhibition of seven contemporary artists who confront the problems of mass production and consumption through fiber-based art that incorporates social engagement and public interaction. The exhibition will be on view from January 27 through May 5, 2013 and has been curated by Anuradha Vikram, Curator of Worth Ryder Galler...   [more]

Opening: January 26th   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

LOS ANGELES, CA — The Craft and Folk Art Museum presents Scratching the Surface: Contemporary Wood Sculpture, an exhibition featuring the works of nine contemporary artists whose unique sculptural forms capitalize on the naturally occurring textures and irregularities of wood. This international selection of artists includes Christian Burchard (OR), Todd Hoyer (AZ), William Hunter (CA), Art Leistm...   [more]

Opening: January 26th   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Since her last exhibition at Craig Krull Gallery in 2010, Astrid Preston's work has traveled further than during any other period in her career. Entitled, New Territory, these paintings on wood and linen are influenced by traditional Japanese painting, as well as that culture's reverence of Nature. Using an analogy of ceramics, she calls it a shift from refined porcelain to raku. Whereas her previou...   [more]

Opening: January 26th   4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Opening: February 2nd   5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

The Assistants explores the transitive potential of art, including how artworks can take on attendant guises and play assisting roles, serving as custodians of memory while also producing resistant gestures and deviant substitutions. The exhibition features new works developed specifically for this context, including several by artists who will be seen in Los Angeles for the first time, as well a...   [more]

Opening: January 18th   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

David Kordansky Gallery is pleased to announce WAITED, an exhibition of new work by Andrew Dadson. This will be Dadson's first exhibition with the gallery, and his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. The exhibition will run from February 9 through March 23, 2013. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, February 9 from 6:00 until 9:00pm. Dadson has developed a practice in which the tradit...   [more]

Opening: February 9th   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Edward Cella Art + Architecture is pleased to present New Work ,the gallery’s second solo exhibition of drawings by acclaimed Canadian artist Cathy Daley.  Daley creates black oil pastel drawings of billowing dresses and gestural silhouettes on vellum that recall the aesthetic conventions of vintage fashion and cinematic glamour.  Graphic and yet lyrical, the artist’s imagery draws from a re...   [more]

Opening: January 5th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Fifth Floor Gallery Presents Doing Pennants: A group show of artist-made flags organized by Paul W. Evans January 12 - February 24, 2013 Opening reception: Saturday, January 12 from 6-9pm Fifth Floor Gallery is pleased to present Doing Pennants. This group show of artist-made flags brings together over 100 contributors from Los Angeles and beyond to celebrate the pennant.  Each artist was assigned to cr...   [more]

Opening: January 12th   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Since ancient times, Iran has been a mosaic of ethnicities, religions, cultures, and languages. This heterogeneity extended to its Jewish communities, which formed distinct cultures within cultures. Light and Shadows: The Story of Iranian Jews tells the rich and complex history of one of the world’s oldest Jewish communities, which dates back nearly 3,000 years since the first Jews exiled from Jer...   [more]

Opening: October 21st, 2012   12:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Fowler Museum to display a new donation of Cambodian shop signs Charming hand-painted signs for local businesses appearing in the streets of Cambodia’s cities in the 1990s, marked the beginning of a new era of private economic activity in the war-torn country. Fowler in Focus: Cambodian Shop Signs: A Gift to the Fowler Museum from Joel G. Montague —on display at the Fowler Museum at UCLA from Dec 2...   [more]

Opening: December 2nd, 2012   12:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Davide Balula sought permission to enter the Guggenheim museum in New York City during hours that are typically reserved for non-viewing. His intention was to measure the slope and curve of Frank Lloyd Wright’s arcing wall. Visitors to the museum will recall that this architectural element is usually not a point of focus, but rather a plane on which to align objects of culture that become the fo...   [more]

Opening: January 25th   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM